"The next day, being the 10th of August, it was found more expedient to land upon the coast of Schelling, than upon Vlie, which was performed by Sir Robert Holmes, with eleven companies, in his long-boats, and he landed with little or no opposition. When he came on shore, he left one company to secure his boats, and with the other ten marched three miles up into the country, to the capital town, called Brandaris, in which there were upwards of a thousand fine houses; where, keeping five companies upon the skirt of the town, to prevent any surprise of the enemy, he sent the other five to set fire to the place: But, finding them somewhat slow to execute that order, and fearing they might be tempted to forget themselves in the pillage, he was himself forced to set fire to some houses to the windward, the sooner to dispatch the work, and hasten his men away, which burned with such violence, that in half an hour's time most part of the town was in a light flame. This place was reported, by those who were found in it, to have been very rich, and so it appeared by some of the soldiers' pockets; but very few people were to be seen there, having had time to escape from the danger, except some old men and women, who were used by the English, after they fell into their hands, with all possible gentleness and humanity. "This blow greatly affected the Dutch, who, according to their own accounts, suffered the loss of near six millions of guilders; and, if we take the ships into this computation, they confess they were losers to the amount of eleven millions, or one million, one hundred thousand pounds sterling."--_Lives of the Admirals_, Vol. II. p. 269, from the account of Sir Robert Holmes. Note XLIV. _Yet London, empress of the northern clime, By a high fate thou greatly didst expire; Great as the world's, which, at the death of Time, Must fall, and rise a nobler frame by fire._ St. 212. p. 142. _"Esse quoque in fatis reminiscitur, adfore tempus, Quo mare, quo tellus, correptaque regia cœli Ardeat; et mundi moles operosa laboret."_ OVID. _Metam._ Lib. I.